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18 October 2024

Microhabitats and minibeasts

Key stage 1 have had lots of fun exploring microhabitats and finding out which minibeasts live in them. 
 

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18 October 2024

Delving further into this term’s value of respect

This week the assembly team performed their drama based around the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. They worked so hard on their performance which helped further enhance our understanding of what respect is and can mean to others.

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18 October 2024

Evaluating Investigations in Science

In Science this week our investigation centred around identifying the best material to make curtains. We used our lux metres to measure how much light each material allowed through and then used the results to inform our decisions. We then evaluated how we would tweak our investigation next time.

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16 October 2024

PTA AGM

On the 3rd October the PTFA had their AGM at school. It was really well attended by current members, new parents, Mr Wynn and Chair of Governors Helen Robertson.

Please find attached the minutes and the AGM presentation. 

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14 October 2024

A work in progress

Class 2 are busy starting their final projects in DT.  Today they drew their design onto their canvas and started to paint. We can’t wait to see their designs come to life!

 

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10 October 2024

Investigating Shadows

We have worked hard on our scientific enquiry skills this afternoon investigating factors that affect our shadows. We created our own results table, recorded results and formed conclusions from these.

 

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10 October 2024

Editing our work in style

Years 3 and 4 have been busy editing their independent writing today. We used our purple pens to correct errors in our work after spotting our errors using our funky glasses.

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9 October 2024

Boscobel House

Class 3 travelled to Shropshire this week to visit Boscobel House and The Royal Oak.  Having been defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester, Charles II escaped to Boscobel in fear of his life. He hid in The Royal Oak tree for 14 hours in the pouring rain!  We had a wonderful day of…

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9 October 2024

Match funding

Match Funding

Did you know that many companies offer their employees Matched Fund Schemes, whereby employers match money raised by a given charity. 

For an introduction to what Matched Funding is, please have a look at the  national PTA website for more details- http://www.pta.co.uk/

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8 October 2024

Bread Baking for Harvest

What a fantastic few days we have had creating bread loaves for our Harvest celebrations.

We worked in our house teams to design and create the loaves to take to church. 
We can’t wait for you to see them.

 

 

 

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7 October 2024

Easy Fundraising

Support Our Fundraising While You Shop

Help the PTA raise free funds when you shop online!

The Howard School PTA have teamed up with Easyfundraising. We currently have 87 supporters and have raised £3043.56! 

Every time you make a purchase from a variety of companies through…

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4 October 2024

Egyptian Drama

We had lots of fun this afternoon in the outdoor theatre retelling the story of Osiris in our history lesson.

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